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Samsung, long considered the perennial bottom-dweller in professional basketball, is keeping up its sensational early-season momentum.
The team secured its fourth consecutive win since the opening by defeating the defending champions LG.
Locked in a tight battle with LG, Samsung pulled off a one-point comeback with about four minutes left in the game when Lee Kwan-hee, who had been scoreless until then, sank a mid-range jumper.
With Kanter capitalizing on LG's paint vulnerability in the absence of Maree—who was sidelined due to an eye injury—to complete a three-play, Lee Kwan-hee caught fire again with consecutive perimeter shots, followed by a long-range three-pointer from Lee Geun-hwi that sealed the victory.
Kanter exploded for a career-high 42 points in a single game, leading the team to its first four-game opening winning streak in 23 years, while Samsung also snapped its nine-game losing streak against LG.
(Video by Park Gi-deok)